1986 Goodwrench 500

Third race of the 1986 NASCAR Winston Cup Series December 2023 NASWINSTON 120.488 mph km/h 21st Annual Goodwrench 500 Mike Joy, Benny Parsons SETN Motor Racing Network 306 Terry Labonte Terry Labonte Hagan Enterprises Hagan Enterprises 44 Hagan Enterprises Terry Labonte 1986 3 2 Rockingham, North Carolina, North Carolina Motor Speedway 1.637 1.017 805.257 492 29 3 Goodwrench 500 1986 25.017 500.364 The 1986 GM Goodwrench 500 program cover, featuring Dale Earnhardt. 1986Goodwrench500Program.jpg 47,500 The 1986 Goodwrench 500 was the third stock car race of the 1986 NASCAR Winston Cup Series season and the 21st iteration of the event. The race was held on Sunday, March 2, 1986, before an audience of 47,500 in Rockingham, North Carolina, at North Carolina Motor Speedway, a 1.017 mi km permanent high-banked racetrack. The race took the scheduled 492 laps to complete. By race's end, Hagan Enterprises' Terry Labonte managed to dominate a majority of the race, leading 306 laps and defending a late race charge by Mach 1 Racing's Harry Gant to take his fifth career NASCAR Winston Cup Series victory and his only victory of the season.Higgins Tom March 3, 1986 Labonte Hangs On At Rockingham 1C, 3C The Charlotte Observer https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-charlotte-observer-labonte-hangs-on/136165688/ December 4, 2023 Newspapers.com Mulhurn Mike March 3, 1986 Labonte Captures Carolina 500 11, 15 Winston-Salem Journal https://www.newspapers.com/article/winston-salem-journal-labonte-captures-c/136165802/ December 4, 2023 Newspapers.com To fill out the top three, the aforementioned Harry Gant and owner-driver Richard Petty finished second and third, respectively. Background thumb|The layout of North Carolina Motor Speedway, the venue where the race was held. North Carolina Motor Speedway was opened as a flat, one-mile oval on October 31, 1965. In 1969, the track was extensively reconfigured to a high-banked, D-shaped oval just over one mile in length. In 1997, North Carolina Motor Speedway merged with Penske Motorsports, and was renamed North Carolina Speedway. Shortly thereafter, the infield was reconfigured, and competition on the infield road course, mostly by the SCCA, was discontinued. Currently, the track is home to the Fast Track High Performance Driving School. Entry list (R) denotes rookie driver. #DriverTeamMake01Earle CanavanCanavan RacingPontiac2Kirk BryantCliff Stewart RacingPontiac3Dale EarnhardtRichard Childress RacingChevrolet5Geoff BodineHendrick MotorsportsChevrolet6Trevor BoysU.S. RacingChevrolet7Kyle PettyWood Brothers RacingFord8Bobby Hillin Jr.Stavola Brothers RacingBuick9Bill ElliottMelling RacingFord10Greg SacksDiGard MotorsportsPontiac11Darrell WaltripJunior Johnson & AssociatesChevrolet12Neil BonnettJunior Johnson & AssociatesChevrolet15Ricky RuddBud Moore EngineeringFord17Phil ParsonsHamby RacingChevrolet18Tommy EllisFreedlander MotorsportsChevrolet20Rick NewsomNewsom RacingBuick22Bobby AllisonStavola Brothers RacingBuick23Michael Waltrip (R)Bahari RacingPontiac25Tim RichmondHendrick MotorsportsChevrolet26Joe RuttmanKing RacingBuick27Rusty WallaceBlue Max RacingPontiac28Cale YarboroughRanier-Lundy RacingFord32Alan Kulwicki (R)Terry RacingFord33Harry GantMach 1 RacingChevrolet41Ronnie ThomasRonnie Thomas RacingChevrolet43Richard PettyPetty EnterprisesPontiac44Terry LabonteHagan EnterprisesOldsmobile47Morgan ShepherdRace Hill Farm TeamBuick48Wayne SlarkHylton MotorsportsChevrolet52Jimmy MeansJimmy Means RacingPontiac64Pancho CarterLangley RacingFord67Buddy ArringtonArrington RacingFord70J. D. McDuffieMcDuffie RacingPontiac71Dave MarcisMarcis Auto RacingPontiac74Bobby WawakWawak RacingChevrolet75Lake SpeedRahMoc EnterprisesPontiac90Ken SchraderDonlavey RacingFord92Jonathan Lee EdwardsEdwards RacingBuick94Eddie BierschwaleEller RacingPontiac95Davey AllisonSadler Brothers RacingChevrolet98Ron BouchardCurb RacingPontiac Qualifying Qualifying was split into two rounds. The first round was held on Thursday, February 27, at 2:30 PM EST. Each driver had one lap to set a time. During the first round, the top 20 drivers in the round were guaranteed a starting spot in the race. If a driver was not able to guarantee a spot in the first round, they had the option to scrub their time from the first round and try and run a faster lap time in a second round qualifying run, held on Friday, February 28, at 2:00 PM EST. As with the first round, each driver had one lap to set a time. For this specific race, positions 21-30 were decided on time,February 27, 1986 Race Week Calendar 3C The Charlotte Observer https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-charlotte-observer-race-week-calenda/136213917/ December 4, 2023 Newspapers.com and depending on who needed it, a select amount of positions were given to cars who had not otherwise qualified but were high enough in owner's points in the previous season; up to two were given. Terry Labonte, driving for Hagan Enterprises, managed to win the pole, setting a time of 25.017 and an average speed of 146.348 mph km/h on in the first round.Higgins Tom February 28, 1986 Labonte Record Run Takes Pole 1C, 3C The Charlotte Observer https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-charlotte-observer-labonte-record-ru/136267426/ December 4, 2023 Newspapers.com No drivers failed to qualify. Full qualifying results Pos.#DriverTeamMakeTimeSpeed144Terry LabonteHagan EnterprisesOldsmobile25.017146.348225Tim RichmondHendrick MotorsportsChevrolet25.117145.76635Geoff BodineHendrick MotorsportsChevrolet25.264144.918411Darrell WaltripJunior Johnson & AssociatesChevrolet25.310144.65453Dale EarnhardtRichard Childress RacingChevrolet25.337144.500622Bobby AllisonStavola Brothers RacingBuick25.401144.136733Harry GantMach 1 RacingChevrolet25.420144.028890Ken SchraderDonlavey RacingFord25.493143.61699Bill ElliottMelling RacingFord25.532143.3971028Cale YarboroughRanier-Lundy RacingFord25.554143.2731171Dave MarcisMarcis Auto RacingChevrolet25.574143.161127Kyle PettyWood Brothers RacingFord25.611142.9541343Richard PettyPetty EnterprisesPontiac25.627142.8651415Ricky RuddBud Moore EngineeringFord25.677142.5871575Lake SpeedRahMoc EnterprisesPontiac25.699142.4651618Tommy EllisFreedlander MotorsportsChevrolet25.706142.4261723Michael Waltrip (R)Bahari RacingPontiac25.796141.9291812Neil BonnettJunior Johnson & AssociatesChevrolet25.822141.786192Kirk BryantCliff Stewart RacingPontiac25.908141.3152027Rusty WallaceBlue Max RacingPontiac25.926141.217Failed to lock in Round 12126Joe RuttmanKing RacingBuick25.367144.3292247Morgan ShepherdRace Hill Farm TeamBuick25.373144.2952310Greg SacksDiGard MotorsportsPontiac25.572143.172248Bobby Hillin Jr.Stavola Brothers RacingBuick25.649142.7422594Eddie BierschwaleEller RacingPontiac25.839141.6932695Davey AllisonSadler Brothers RacingChevrolet25.946141.1082732Alan Kulwicki (R)Terry RacingFord26.041140.5942817Phil ParsonsHamby RacingOldsmobile26.120140.1682964Pancho CarterLangley RacingFord26.197139.7563098Ron BouchardCurb RacingBuick26.200139.740316Trevor BoysU.S. RacingChevrolet26.376138.8103274Bobby WawakWawak RacingChevrolet26.505138.1323352Jimmy MeansJimmy Means RacingPontiac26.507138.1223467Buddy ArringtonArrington RacingFord26.529138.0073501Earle CanavanCanavan RacingPontiac26.687137.1903692Jonathan Lee EdwardsEdwards RacingChevrolet26.755136.8423741Ronnie ThomasRonnie Thomas RacingChevrolet26.808136.5713870J. 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McDuffieMcDuffie RacingPontiac26.898136.1143948Wayne SlarkHylton MotorsportsChevrolet26.972135.7414020Rick NewsomNewsom RacingBuick27.039135.404Official first round qualifying resultsOfficial starting lineup Race results FinSt#DriverTeamMakeLapsLedStatusPtsWinnings1144Terry LabonteHagan EnterprisesOldsmobile492306running185$44,5502733Harry GantMach 1 RacingChevrolet4920running170$28,11031343Richard PettyPetty EnterprisesPontiac49259running170$15,97042247Morgan ShepherdRace Hill Farm TeamBuick4910running160$9,2555411Darrell WaltripJunior Johnson & AssociatesChevrolet4911running160$18,61561028Cale YarboroughRanier-Lundy RacingFord4900running150$5,410799Bill ElliottMelling RacingFord4900running146$15,560853Dale EarnhardtRichard Childress RacingChevrolet49069running147$19,51091812Neil BonnettJunior Johnson & AssociatesChevrolet4902running143$12,710101575Lake SpeedRahMoc EnterprisesPontiac4894running139$9,96511127Kyle PettyWood Brothers RacingFord4891running135$10,870122027Rusty WallaceBlue Max RacingPontiac4870running127$8,165133098Ron BouchardCurb RacingBuick4860running124$7,645141618Tommy EllisFreedlander MotorsportsChevrolet4850running121$3,270152732Alan Kulwicki (R)Terry RacingFord4830running118$3,87016225Tim RichmondHendrick MotorsportsChevrolet4780running115$3,170173467Buddy ArringtonArrington RacingFord4770running112$6,83518192Kirk BryantCliff Stewart RacingPontiac4760running109$6,575193352Jimmy MeansJimmy Means RacingPontiac4760running106$6,3052035Geoff BodineHendrick MotorsportsChevrolet45946engine108$10,470211723Michael Waltrip (R)Bahari RacingPontiac4570running100$2,16522890Ken SchraderDonlavey RacingFord4570running97$6,765232964Pancho CarterLangley RacingFord4360running94$5,430243692Jonathan Lee EdwardsEdwards RacingChevrolet4320running91$2,440252695Davey AllisonSadler Brothers RacingChevrolet4100rear end88$1,965263741Ronnie ThomasRonnie Thomas RacingChevrolet3560rear end85$1,815271171Dave MarcisMarcis Auto RacingChevrolet3522engine87$4,970281415Ricky RuddBud Moore EngineeringFord3150engine79$9,715292594Eddie BierschwaleEller RacingPontiac2310crash76$1,665302817Phil ParsonsHamby RacingOldsmobile2280engine73$4,660313870J. 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McDuffieMcDuffie RacingPontiac1700engine70$4,300323501Earle CanavanCanavan RacingPontiac1650engine67$1,475332126Joe RuttmanKing RacingBuick1170overheating64$2,00034622Bobby AllisonStavola Brothers RacingBuick1172ignition66$1,37535316Trevor BoysU.S. RacingChevrolet1010brakes58$4,090363948Wayne SlarkHylton MotorsportsChevrolet960crash55$4,055372310Greg SacksDiGard MotorsportsPontiac810handling52$8,300383274Bobby WawakWawak RacingChevrolet470engine49$1,25039248Bobby Hillin Jr.Stavola Brothers RacingBuick410crash46$3,960404020Rick NewsomNewsom RacingBuick390crash43$1,205Official race results Standings after the race Drivers' Championship standings Pos Driver Points 10px 1 1 Darrell Waltrip 490 10px 4 2 Terry Labonte 478 (-12) 10px 1 3 Dale Earnhardt 448 (-42) 10px 3 4 Geoff Bodine 440 (–50) 10px 5 Kyle Petty 430 (–60) 10px 1 6 Rusty Wallace 408 (–82) 10px 3 7 Lake Speed 385 (–105) 10px 8 Ron Bouchard 383 (–107) 10px 2 9 Bill Elliott 375 (–115) 10px 7 10 Bobby Hillin Jr. 361 (–129)Official driver's standings Note: Only the first 10 positions are included for the driver standings. References 1986 Miller High Life 400 1986 Motorcraft 500 1986 NASCAR Winston Cup Series Category:1986 in sports in North Carolina Category:1986 NASCAR Winston Cup Series Category:March 1986 sports events in the United States Category:NASCAR races at Rockingham Speedway